Sharpcast
posted in Photography, Technology |I’ve been playing with Sharpcast a bit the last few days and even signed up for their premium service. The key hook there is that they offer to “backup” full-resolution copies of your images on their servers. The current offer has no quota associated with it which makes the $6/month very attractive. Uploading photos in one photo is really easy but it takes a bunch more work to upload a bunch of different folders. Still, as long as the unlimited photos thing holds out, it seems like a very nice service.
I’ve been playing with various ideas in this space and the Sharpcast guys have overall done a very good job. Nice client to web-site integration. Fairly good upload, although it will consume all available bandwidth if it can (be careful running it on a work network since you don’t want to bring everyone’s network to a grinding halt).
All the same there are some pretty key missing features. Its still early so I hope they will add these soon. I really miss being able to assign star-ratings to photos and to filter by the star ratings. For example I like to have available all the photos of a given event but usually just share out / use a slide show the 4-5 star ones. The client is also able to show composite albums/slideshows with sub-folders but the web-site can’t.